This video from 1949 produced by the Hamilton Watch company (A heritage American watchmaker), uses a Hamilton 747 movement to instruct the audience on how an automatic wristwatch (or pocketwatch) works. Save for some improvements and complications by various manufacturers, the general engineering concept for a basic timepiece has been largely unchanged for 300 or so years. I am not very mechanically minded, but certainly the Mechanics, Engineers and Architects amongst you should be informed/entertained by this video.
I would only accept one of these as a gift. I'd never actually buy one. Kinda ugly. I think they saw the popularity of Tissot returning to a 1970's themed case and bracelet integration with the PXR Powermatics and filed suit. I don't like the dial at all. The only exciting thing about this is the sapphire case back. I hope Rolex offers that more in the future.
Adjusted for inflation, that watch would cost $2853 today. While it isn’t a Patek, Rolex or an Omega, it would be something like a Tag Heuer or an Oris—a very respectable watch for a 20 year-old college kid to have and certainly one worth keeping and passing down.
While it isn't a Rolex or an Omega, it is still a good watch and at $789 with tax, I'm getting a lot of bang for my buck. Now I have figure out a way to pay this thing off in a month before I get charged interest.
Pretty cool looking watch. Its about 3K and the snake feature has an on/off button. If you let the snake run it will last for around 38 hours before you need to change the battery
I was watching some Sopranos clips and I very surprised to see the character of Vito with an Oris. Fanook that he was, he was a top earner. I would think he would have had a Datejust or maybe an AP or a Ulysses Nardin. Oris is a really good watch, though. I have the Aquis Big Cherry, myself. No complaints. I just think it is a bit understated for a character like Vito.
I have had it 4 or 4.5 years and this is the 2nd time this has happened. It is sufficiently charged, but will not pair with my phone or do anything at all.
I love the toughness of the case and bracelet and the functions like backlighting, but overall this watch has been quirky and disappointing.
Meanwhile, someone has found an 60 year-old automatic Longines or Hamilton in their dead uncle’s junk drawer and shook it twice and it’s working.
...is when Hans Gruber is holding onto Holly Mclane's wrist as he is falling out of the Nakatomi Tower and John McClane unclasps her Rolex thereby sacrificing it so Gruber can finally fall and die.
I got the call earlier today. I was on a waitlist for over a year for a watch in Rose Gold and Steel. With NYS Sales Tax, it would have cost me $17,850 and I just don’t have the money laying around. I had some medical stuff to take care of earlier this year and it entirely depleted my watch fund.
My old Authorized Dealer used to let me lay them away with 1/3 or 1/2 down and pay it off in like under 6 months and then pick it up, but the ADs in Manhattan have too many wealthy clients to be nickel and diming with some middle class guy from Queens. I was willing to put down $9K, but it was all or nothing with these guys. I’m absolutely not using credit or financing. Fuck that.
